by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 27, 2025 | A personal history, DEI, Dr. Crystal Cené, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Lee Younger, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Paul Batalden, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Inequality in Healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
June 27, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On A Lifetime Of Practice And The Importance of DEI To Our Health This coming Tuesday will be the fiftieth anniversary of my first day of post-training medical practice. I was quite nervous as I walked...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 13, 2025 | Adam Hochschild, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Big Beautiful Bill, Deportations, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Jennifer Rubin, MAGA, Medicaid, National Guard and Marines in LA, No Kings protest, Robert Kennedy Jr., Saving Democracy, Senator Alex Padilla, Social Determinants of Health, Terry Moran
June 13, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, It Is Hard To Know What Comes Next And How It Will End Since January 21st, there has been a new depressing surprise almost every day, or at least every week, and many of these surprises have a direct or indirect...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 23, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Dr. Alice Chen, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, FQHCs, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, healthcare under Trump, hospital closings in rural America, Medicaid, Moral Injury, Senator Bill Cassidy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
May 23, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The New England Journal Comes Through As you may have noticed, I sometimes reference New England Journal of Medicine articles. Honestly, I have been disappointed by the relative silence of the Journal about the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 9, 2025 | David Brooks, DOGE, Dr. Atul Gawande, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's inept administration
May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 18, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Alan Garber, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's attempts to extort universities, Trump's first 88 days
April 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Everything Is Connected, Uncertain, and Likely to Get Worse The last thirty years have convinced me that healthcare, political issues, controversial social issues, and economics are connected in ways that can’t be...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 11, 2025 | amyloidosis, Dartmouth Health, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Human Services, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, Trump's narcissism, Trump's tariffs
April 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers. Warning! This has been such a turbulent week for the president, the country, economies of every country in the world, and healthcare here in America that I have needed to do three rewrites. There may be a few...